A curated network for the UK's most considered food and drink challenger brands, and the people who help them grow. Introductions that actually go somewhere, year round, made directly by a member of The Forge team.
The network is one room with two doors. Choose yours, and we will introduce you to the people on the other side.
everything in the forge is made by hand, including the introductions.
Our team learns who you are and what you need, then puts you in front of the people worth knowing. The rest of the programme exists to give those relationships somewhere to grow.
Warm, matched by a wonderful human, year round. Never a mailout, never a list.
Eight to a table, off the record, worth the drive to Norfolk.
Briefs on category, buyers and capital. Read, not skimmed.
Workshops built for people who already trade, not beginners.
off the record, and worth the drive to Norfolk.
No stage, no pitch, no name badges. A table set by our team, the people worth meeting, and the kind of conversation you cannot have anywhere else. Members come for the evening and remember it for a year.
not a trade show. a room built so the meetings actually land.
A curated buying day where founder-run brands meet the people who actually place the orders, face to face. Waitrose, Ocado and the buyers worth your morning, in one Georgian house in Norfolk.
the best brands are not all in london, and neither are we.
Ex Diageo, founder of Nocrudo, the UK's first non alcoholic nootropic cocktail range, now scaling to exit.
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